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Hundreds of young people clashed with riot police in northern Morocco Friday, following a general strike called by activists demanding ...

Most shops were shuttered Friday in the northern Morocco city of Al-Hoceima, the second day of a general strike called ...

International aid arrived into Sri Lanka on Wednesday as the death toll from the island's worst floods and landslides in ...

Emergency teams rushed food and water Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced by the island's worst flooding for ...

ISIS-linked terrorists have murdered 19 civilians in the Philippines including a woman and a child. This week 85 people have ...

Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel ...

Cohabiting couples in Burundi have until the end of the year to get married or face legal consequences. The government ...

India joined Sri Lanka's relief operation Saturday as 230,000 people were driven from their homes after an intense monsoon deluge ...

Myanmar authorities have detained a Turkish family and are trying to deport them to Turkey, where activists fear they will ...

Japan said Friday it scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese vessel sailing in disputed waters launched a drone, the latest ...

Gunmen from a Christian sect have stormed a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, freeing their leader and ...

Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between ...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir sacked his powerful, hardline army chief Paul Malong on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. General ...

Pakistan's military on Sunday said it had killed more than 50 Afghan soldiers in a clash on a major border ...

DR Congo's influential Catholic bishops have urged authorities to allow prominent opposition politician Moise Katumbi to return from exile, calling ...

A suicide attack on a convoy belonging to the Nato mission in Afghanistan has killed at least eight people in ...

The UN's World Food Programme has said Burundi has blocked an 10-truck aid convoy coming in from Rwanda, the Reuters ...

A 26-year-old British man wanted for the murder of a compatriot in Myanmar is living freely in Scotland because the ...

At least 11 civilians were killed when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle in the restive southern Afghan province ...

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping ...